Optimizing the management of hereditary haemochromatosis: the value of MRI R2* quantification to predict and monitor body iron stores

Affiliations

• ¹ Imaging Department - Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ² i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, IBMC, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal.
• ³ Radiology Department and Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230), Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
• ⁴ Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁵ i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁶ Imaging Department, Hospital Distrital de Santarém, Santarém, Portugal.
• ⁷ Liver and Pancreas Transplantation Unit and Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁸ Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit), Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁹ Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ¹⁰ Haematology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal.